This Sunday the Ngurratjuta Many Hands Art Centre will join Bindi Inc and Tangentyere artists in opening their doors to the public as a part of the Desert Mob events.

Artists Peter Taylor, Gloria Pannka and Ivy Pareroultja are direct descendents of Albert Namatjira and have not only curated their own exhibition, but will also be painting during the open day.

The watercolour artists are spending a few days painting out bush with the art organisation Big hART in the lead up to the event.

Peter Taylor says he has been painting watercolours for about forty years now.

"It's a good medium and a might famous Uncle of mine (Albert Namatjira), is family for most of us and we all like his painting and kept following him.

"I've lived up and down the Finke River all my life and we used to go to Hermannsburg and see all our relations there for Christmas, that's when I started taking an interest in painting and that's what I still do," he said.

Gloria Pannaka says she learnt by watching her Uncles paint in the West MacDonnell Ranges,

"They used to give me an old paint tube, an old brush, told me to get an old board, and I used to sit under a tree and paint," she said.

The works of those very Namatjira Uncles will also be on display at the open day.

Iris Bendor from the Art Centre says six rare paintings from the 1940's-1950's will be temporarily released from the private collection of the Ngurratjuta Aboriginal Corporation,

"The paintings are of Enos, Maurice and Ewald Namatjira - sons of Albert Namatjira, and Rex Battarbee - Namatjira's painting teacher from Victoria, and Wenten Rubuntja - an important artist and Aboriginal rights activist in Alice Springs," she said.

The Ngurratjuta Many Hands Art Centre will be open to the public this Sunday between 11am-3pm.

Listen to interviews with Gloria Pannka and Peter Taylor by clicking on the audio.